Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1887-04-21
NEWS SUMMARY.

! now has railway connection.
| A London cablegram chronicles the
death Of the duchess of Norfolk
The governor of New York has
vetoed tie Crosby high-Hcense bill.
Spencer Smith has accepted place
Oh the Iowa Railroad Commission.
The missing steamer Eagle has ar
rived at st. Johns with two thousand
seals.
The heaviest crop for many years is
| predicted by peach-growers in New
| Jersey.
| Samuel Simpson, an uncle of Gen
eral Grant. died at Bantam, Ohio, at
the age Of 81.
An earthquake sufficiently severe to
create panic occurred on Sunday at
Burlington. Vermont.
John 7. Raymond, the well-known
actor. died at Evansville, Ind, at 2
o'clock Sunday morning.
Charles P. Parker, who stole 4.4OO
from Paymaster d. N. Bash, III Ari-
IONA, has been captured.
The Chicago ball club defeated the
st. Louis Browns Tuesday by score
| of Is to Is, at Louisville.
Copious rains have at last fallen for
a distance of three hundred miles
along the Texas and Pacific road.
A commercial club has been organ
lied by the leading business men to
| boom the ancient town Of Galena.
In a ball game played Wednesday at
| Cincinnati, the Chicago nine defeated
the st. Louis Browns by a score of
6 to 3.
A fire at Custer, Michigan. des-
troyed a factory which turned out $780,,
COO clothes-pinS daily. 1t was valued
| at $40, 600
The German Government, after ex-
| periments by tho war office, paid $3.50,
| 0OO for an invention for steering
balloons.
The members OF Temple Israel. at
| st. Louis, subscribed $500 on Sunday
| toward q monument to Rev. Henry
| Ward Beecher.
q special session commencing next
week, will resume balloting for United
| States senator.
The drought i'll Texas extends from
| the western grazing lands across the
state eight hundred miles to the Louis
| lana pine region.
William Fields. captain &C the
| United States Indian police, was
killed near Eufaula on Sunday, by a
| chief named Claiming.
DR.. Nathan N Thomas. one of the
| pioneers OF 81 eli, Jan and a famous
abolition st, died at SchOolcraft, OH
"Wednesday, aged 81 years.
A fire in the laundry Of Sing Sing
prison destroyed the roof and upper
! floor. The conVictS rendered aid in
! eXtinguishing the flames.
The late Miss Catharine L. Wolfe, of
New York, bequeathed to the Metro
| politan Museum of Art her collection
| Of pictures and 500 in cash.
AT Westfeld Corners, Illinois. John
Hogan was knocked down and then
| seized by the neck and shaken to
death by savage stallion.
1t is reported from Fort Gibson that
James @. Blaine is improving, but has
been advised by his physician to re-
main in his room for week.
Nora Brown, fat negress of San
Antonio, Texas, has within seven
years become white, with the excep-
ton Of her neck and finger-tips.
Eldridge D. Rand. one of the pioneer
lumber merchants Of the upper Mis-
'sissippi, died at Burlington, Iowa, on
Sunday, leaving large fortune.
Under a recent enactment of the
Ohio legislature, husband and wife are
distinct individuals in their rights to
| acquire and dispose of property.
| 1t is stated by the Atlanta Constitu-
| ton that President Cleveland has
promised to attend the Piedmont ex-
position in that city next October.
| A tribunal at Odessa sentenced
Lieutenant Goreff to eight years hard
| labor in the mines OF Siberia for dis
tributing revolutionary circulars.
| Kuty, a town in Austrian Galicia,
| having a population of about 6,00O
| has been almost completely destroyed
| by fire. About 1000 people are home
less.
1t is proposed to amalgamate III one
| gigantic organization the National
Federation of Miners and the Miners
| National Assembly of the Knights of
| Labor.
The statement comes from St.
| Thomas that negotiations for the
transfer of the Canada Southern road
to the Canadian Pacific are in pro-
gross.
David E. Mitchell, stock-dealer,
we'll known in central Illinois, has fed
with S., 900 or so, obtained in the vi
cinity of Bloomington by false pre-
| lenses.
| Lew Emple, "a banker at Burllngame.
| Kansas, who died on Sunday from
paralysis. was one of the pioneers of
that State, and a prominent Odd
Fellow.
| The Illinois Central road has purch-
ased control of the Dubuque and
Sioux City at $50 per share, and now
owns all the lines in Iowa heretofore
leased by it.
The legislature OF Rhode Island
comprises Sc democrats and 46 repub-
licans, insuring the election of those
democratic state candidates who failed
at the polls.
| The new Illinois railroad commits
sion comprises John l.. Rinaker, B. Z.
Marsh, and Jason Rogers. The north
ern section of the state is now I'M
represented.
| The trustees of the Illinois Soldiers
| Orphans home at Normal have re-
moved Virginia G. Ohr, matron for
twenty years, and reinstated G. l..
| Gill as clerk.
A jury at Nebraska City imposed the
death penalty upon David Hoffman
| for urerkino a Missouri Pacific train